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Chapter 87 Refining the Human Body
  After a good day's rest, Purficott appeared on the dock again.

She still held her cane in her hand and tapped it on the ground from time to time. Occasionally she would poke the stone on the ground that she had transformed with alchemy to see if the knot was strong.

"It seems that the last time we directly used large-scale alchemy to convert substances was a bit rough. The stones in many places were very loose and almost broke when knocked. They couldn't be used as the cornerstone of the dock." Purficott regretfully said As she spoke, the movements of her hands did not stop. From time to time, she used alchemy to adjust the problematic areas she found.

However, because she was only making minor repairs, it did not put much pressure on her mental strength, so she seemed to be very calm and leisurely.

Just watching her knocking around with the cane again was somewhat stressful for others.

After all, the power shown by Purficott before was too amazing and scared many people.

Not to mention the inexperienced natives on Sweet Berry Island, even those members of the escort and exploration team who had experienced the massacre of Perficott in New Shake City were full of awe of Perficott, and even It's fear.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, Purficott has shown her cruel side in New Shaker City, and now she has shown her powerful power again. No matter from every aspect, she has the ability to bring fear to people. strength.

Even the knights, who were also extraordinary beings, were afraid of the power shown by Perficott.

You must know that although the power of extraordinary beings in this world is powerful, it is difficult for them to do something as exaggerated as Purficott's previous effort to reshape the entire dock on his own.

In other words, except for alchemists and mages, no other professional extraordinary person can do the same thing.

At least not with their extraordinary abilities.

At this point, the old butler Foster even said that even if he put on the steam knight armor, it would be difficult to do such a thing.

This is not because he is not strong enough. As a knight of the Order, he is already a high-level transcendent. With the support of the Steam Knight Armor, it can be said that Foster's combat power is now more powerful than all those who have reached this level in the past. Level knights.

After all, knights in history did not have something as outrageous as the Steam Knight Armor, which could triple a knight's power.

With this kind of power, Foster can be sure that he can easily tear apart an entire infantry regiment or sink an old warship even if he only uses a lance or a chainsword.

But it is still impossible to directly affect a large area like Purficott.

Even among the alchemists themselves, few people can do the same thing. After all, the alchemists were not pursuing destructive power from the beginning.

The level title of an alchemist is also linked to academic achievements, not combat prowess.

It can be said that the alchemist is one of the only two extraordinary professions among all extraordinary professions that is not based on strength, but on knowledge as the professional level. The remaining one is the mage.

Because for these two professions, having enough knowledge and gaining power is easier than eating and drinking.

Whether it is alchemy or magic, there are many channels that can strengthen oneself or obtain powerful power, but these require strong enough theoretical knowledge to support. For example, Purficott’s parents were proficient in the study of the human body and flesh, and even opened the door to the taboo of human body refining, and tried it on their own daughter.

And Purficott has thus become one of the highest achievements pursued by alchemy, perfect life.

If we want to explain what perfect life is, we need to start with the core concept of alchemy.

In the view of alchemists, both life and matter have various imperfections and defects. As long as the imperfections and defects of matter are repaired, new substances can be obtained.

Alchemy is a technology used to repair and perfect matter.

With the development of alchemy, alchemists developed two different pursuit goals for their core concepts. One is commonly known as the Midas into gold, which is the transformation of all imperfect and unstable substances through alchemy. Turn into a perfect, stable substance like gold.

The second is to use alchemical means to gradually make life with various imperfections and incompleteness into perfection, which is the so-called human body refinement.

In the process of continuous efforts to achieve these two goals, some alchemists proposed to develop a substance that can not only complete life, but also make matter perfect, and this substance is the Red Potion Philosopher's Stone. .

The power of the Philosopher's Stone can make life perfect, and can also transform all incomplete materials into the most stable form. It can be said that it is the truth that alchemists pursue throughout their lives.

However, the difficulty of making the Philosopher's Stone is too high, so most alchemists are self-aware and do not pursue this ultimate project.

Generally speaking, ordinary alchemists mostly work hard on completing substances, which is also the origin of the professional name of alchemist.

As for the refining of the human body, because it requires the use of various living beings as test subjects, in a sense it is somewhat unacceptable to the world.

Therefore, during the dark millennium of the Middle Ages, alchemists were once persecuted and were targeted by the church along with witches. Human refining was also taboo for a long time due to various reasons.

After all, in the view of the church, human beings are God's creation and God's perfect work. The alchemists' human body refinement is blasphemous.

It can be said that until the age of steam, alchemists could only conduct research in this field secretly and did not dare to expose it to the church.

It was not until the Steam Age that the power of the church gradually declined, and the restrictions on research in this field were gradually relaxed. Many alchemists in the new era also invested a lot of energy in this field.

These research results not only allow alchemists to advance further in the field of human body refining, but also greatly promote the development of the medical field in the world.

Although doctors' main treatment method was bloodletting, surgery was obviously greatly promoted. At least doctors knew what was in the human stomach and what it was used for.

Purficott's parents were typical representatives of the alchemists who studied human body refining during this period, and these two were truly amazing and talented. Not only did they complete their project in the field of human body refining, they also turned their daughter into a A perfect life, and only just a few steps away from completing the creation of the Philosopher's Stone.

(End of this chapter)